DWP reverses decision to offshore 200 UK jobs
A union is claiming that pressure from its members led to IT supplier HP reversing a decision to offshore 200 UK jobs to India. The move would have resulted in a government contractor sending the live records of millions of UK citizens overseas for the first time, in the initial step of a process known as ‘knowledge transfer’. […]
Workday integrates with Salesforce.com for social collaboration purposes
HR Software-as-a-Service provider Workday has integrated its offerings into Salesforce.com‘s environment to enable employees to undertake social collaboration and application development activities more easily. The vendor has integrated its workforce data with Salesforce’s enterprise social media tool, Chatter, to enable users to share, collaborate and work with the information in real-time. Staff will be able […]
Blog: What are you bringing to the top table?
Recognise This! – If HR wants a seat at the table, then bring metrics the CEO cares about. Over and over again, I hear HR pros talking about “getting a seat at the table.” Laurie Ruettimann’s post last week reminded me again of this highly contentious topic. I’m always astounded that HR doesn’t have […]
RBS pay details exposed in Hays email
Recruitment specialist Hays has launched an internal investigation after one of its employees forwarded on an email revealing the pay of thousands of contractors who work for the Royal Bank of Scotland. According to Sky News, the message, which disclosed the pay of about 3,000 contract and temporary staff employed in areas such as HR […]
T Mobile data selling scandal staff fined
Two former T-Mobile staff have had to pay £73,700 in fines and confiscation orders after being found guilty of selling on the details of half a million customers to direct marketing companies. Darren Hames, an area sales manager for the mobile phone operator in Hatfield, stole the information about customers whose contracts were due […]
Employees exit – and take confidential data
A huge seven out of 10 workers intend to take confidential company data away with them when they resign or are given the push because they believe that it belongs to them, according to research. A survey undertaken among 1,000 UK employees by security software company Imperva revealed that the most likely information to be […]
Metrics are the key to effective business strategy
How are the best HR functions using metrics to inform and execute business strategy? Will HR ever add value to the business strategy through its development and execution of people strategy? If so, how will it prove it, and what are the benefits of being able to provide such proof? We at Orion Partners decided […]
The paperless office: To fear or not to fear?
Technology correspondent Jon Wilcox takes a look at the ‘Holy Grail’ for offices and asks whether it will ever be realistically attained. The subject of the paperless office concept is almost as perennial as conversations about the weather. For the past 40 years since it was dreamt up, the notion of a paper-free […]
HCM: Using analytics to help organisations fight back
Peter Howes highlights how the use of eight metrics, that have specifically been identified for use in a downturn, can lead to greater workforce insight, improving efficiency and driving cost savings. With the recession in full swing, rapid changes within the global business environment have left many HR directors reeling. Until recently most were […]
